Word: bantering
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Grohl did, however, engage in playful banter with Taylor Hawkins, the band's long-time drummer and the most rock-starish of the Fighters, with his long bleached hair and penchant for dark sunglasses. The two duked it out on the drums at one point, answering each other's rhythms in an impressive, but somewhat self-indulgent display. For those who like the Foo Fighters' softer, more melodic side, the show came up a little short. But for those who value the band's ability to rock out and appreciate a touch of arrested adolescence, the concert delivered everything...
...Christopher shrugs off Baker's remark as "just harmless banter from an over-rated Texas fixer." He adds that he "understand[s] why [Baker] is so eager to put another Bush in the White House since he couldn't keep the last...
...Besieged voters complain not just about the ads' volume but about their negativity as well. In a country where trashing politicians is a staple of late-night comedy and water-cooler banter, the only people who are not supposed to disparage politicians are their opponents. There seems to be little distinction between underhanded smears and hard, defensible attacks, only a growing consensus that making the basic argument of a campaign - that I am the right choice and my opponent the wrong one - is somehow dirty pool...
...always packed; some of us went back for the first lecture after we'd already taken the course," he wrote. "After some banter scaring underclassmen into the seats in front of the auditorium, Professor Chapman launched into his venomous lecture on Cyrano, with particular attention to the character Roxanne. Later in the course Professor Chapman discussed with much more admiration the works of George Bernard Shaw...
...other day who had no sense of humor. None. The chip was missing, as in an alien who cannot weep or fall in love. I tried to banter with him. He flat-lined. His face stared back in blank, serene incomprehension. For an instant I had a flash of Henny Youngman trying to get a laugh out of Eleanor Roosevelt...